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Features: DVD
Editor's Note
An embittered cop leads a precinct of characters in their grim battle with the city's lowlife while wife Parker suffers from neglect. Based on Sydney Kingsley's Broadway play, this seminal movie was a prototype for everything from "Hill Street Blues" to "NYPD Blue."
Plot Summary
William Wyler directed this classic adaptation of Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play. | The film follows a day in the lives of detectives at a Manhattan police precinct. Among the cops is hard-boiled James McLeod -- a lawman who sees everything in terms of black and white. His inability to empathize with others could wreck the life of a young man arrested for a minor offense as well as his own marriage...
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Features | An embittered cop leads a precinct of characters in their grim battle with the city's lowlife while wife Parker suffers from neglect. Based on Sydney Kingsley's Broadway play, this seminal movie was a prototype for everything from "Hill Street Blues" to "NYPD Blue." Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director, Best Actress--Eleanor Parker, Best Screenplay. |
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Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 7/14/2009 |
| Running Time: 103 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1951 | | UPC: 00032429065681 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: B&W |
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Cast & Crew
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Awards |
Cannes (1952) |  | Lee Grant, Winner, Best Actress |
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